Landscape Maintenance
Landscape maintenance businesses are a very hot topic these days. If
managed properly, they can turn into billion-dollar revenue streams, a
fact which has, by no surprise, caught the eye of many financial
institutions. Private equity firms seem to be snatching up landscape
companies, and at good multiples. But they aren’t the only ones who are
sitting up and paying attention; so are landscape contractors
themselves. There seems to have been more activity in the last six
months than in the two years prior combined.
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Business Articles
You may know your business or your industry well. But do you know anything about yourself? Forward-thinking executives and business leaders evaluate their employees and clients to help better understand work styles and personality types. Understanding the types of people one works with is important, especially for executives.
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Landscape Maintenance
That’s the story for so many people in the green industry. As soon as they were tall enough and strong enough to push a mower, many budding landscape contractors began by cutting lawns for neighbors, to earn extra money after school and in the summer..
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Landscape Maintenance
If you've ever sat around on a Monday night to watch a football game,
you're probably familiar with the term 'sports analyst.' Often a former
player, now a sports analyst,
gives his opinion on how well teams are playing, and makes predictions
about which team has the best chance to win. Sometimes, he'll even
estimate what the final score will be.
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Business Articles
Businessmen
fail even in days of prosperity, turning otherwise profitable
enterprises into dismal
failures, often in surprisingly short time. Red ink is an indication,
not a cause, for a breakdown in a company's health. Being guilty of one
failing, or a combination of several, can sink any
profitable business into oblivion.
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Landscape Lighting
It’s important to know how to take advantage of a good thing. When Scott Driscoll of Driscoll’s Landscaping, Mullica Hill, New Jersey, noticed the amount of development in the Mullica Hill area, he moved his entire business there – not to mention his entire family. “It looked like a good thing,” he says. “I wanted to follow the work.”
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Landscape Maintenance
THE OFF-SEASON FOR IRRIGATION and landscape contracting businesses is often a time for organization, inventory, accounts receivables, budgets and projections. However, once these important tasks are completed, seasonal landscape companies often struggle with finding winter activities that would be the most productive and profitable for them and their fulltime employees.
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Close-Up Profiles
It was quite a journey, and James Cornelius never imagined that one day he would be the proud owner of a company. The 46-year-old Illinois native is the president and owner of U.S. Praxis, but after graduating high school, owning a manufacturing company was the last thing on his mind.
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Business Articles
You’ve heard people say this over and over again: “I don’t have time.” The fact is that we all have the same number of hours in each day and we choose what to do with those hours. We choose whether to stay in bed, get up and go to work, or show up at our exercise class.
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